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Old 02-10-10, 03:06 PM   #2
Xringer
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We have a lot of CFLs in our house. And my wife loves the new ceiling kitchen lamp I installed.
It looks good and it's big inside. It was easy to fit a couple of the brighter CFLs inside.
Once it warms up, it lights up the kitchen work areas much better than the old stuff ever did.

We have the same problem with dimmers on a few older lighting fixtures.
But, these are mostly in places where they see little use..
Plus, they are almost always used in the lower output range of the dimmers.

The finished side of our basement had two recessed ceiling lamps
and worked poorly even with 100w incan bulbs.

We found two large non-recessed fixtures that didn't hang down too far
and installed them over the 12"x12" holes in the ceiling.
Screws in some nice CFLs and wow! What a difference!!

When my kid moved into her new home, I replaced a bunch of recessed
small incan spotlights with new spotlight style CFLs. They worked out great.


The nice thing about using CFLs in low usage rooms (laundry rooms etc),
is they will last the rest of your life!! Never ever need to change them..

In my experience, It's very very rare to see a modern CFL burn out..
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